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Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1) QUOTES

Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1) QUOTES

1 " People are weird, Atlanta thinks. Everybody’s someone different than you suspect. "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

2 " They don’t ask, How do we stop bullies? Instead those assholes say, How can we get these stupid kids to stop painting bull’s-eyes on their foreheads? They put the blame on the victims, not the victimizers. "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

3 " That flag’s not just the emblem of being a racist asshole, a club to which your daddy probably belongs happily. But it’s also the Confederate flag. The one carried by Southerners to say to the Yankees—that’s your daddy, a Yankee—‘Don’t tread on me or I’ll pop a musket ball up your ass.’ Northerners driving around with the Dixie flag is like a Jew wearing a ‘Go Hitler!’ baseball cap.” Jonesy’s "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

4 " Life is equal parts strange and beautiful and horrible, and we’re tossed into it without a map or an instruction guide. Poems and stories have a way of helping us make sense of things. "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

5 " Look like chick books.”
“And you’re a chick, so what’s the problem?”
She laughs. “Well, you've got beans and franks, or so I assume.”
“Hey,” he says, suddenly all serious. “Reading books by female authors does not limit my macho vibe. Plus, bitches write the best characters, man. It’s like they get people, you know? "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

6 " Easy-peasy, George-and-Weezy. "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

7 " You don’t know what you’re doing,” Mitchell says. “Poking a stick into a den of snakes.” “Poke-poke, motherfuckers.” Atlanta pulls the trigger. "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)

8 " In the kitchen, Chris pours her a glass of sun tea. Bitter. She hates the way they make tea up here. Tea should be sweet, gritty with sugar. Up here it’s like the Yankees want their tea to taste like wash water. "

― Chuck Wendig , Atlanta Burns (Atlanta Burns, #1)